A FINE art photographer from Shaldon has landed a plum spot at a specialist exhibition in the Big Apple.

Mary Pearson has bagged space at the Agora Gallery’s ‘Illumination’ show on West 25th Street in the arty district of Chelsea in New York.

Her limited edition ‘natural world’ images will be a snip at $550 for punters who catch the event between April 26 and May 17.

The work of 17 international artists will be featured in the exhibition.

A gallery spokesman explained: ‘The exhibition casts a wide net to find the artists creating the most visually innovative work.

‘There are landscape photographers who transform the terrain into a living, brightly coloured being by testing the limits of digital cameras.

‘There are detail photographers who work within contemporary languages – including genres as varied as minimalism, expressionism, and pop – to bring a new kind of photographic work to light.

‘And there are portraitists, who dive deep into their subjects to present psychological studies as well.’

She added: ‘Innovators and purists alike will find new aesthetic ideas to wrestle with in the collection. These are all artists working with traditional subjects to create modern views of the world around them.’

She said of Devon’s representative: ‘She exhibits a strong connection with the world around her with a sharp eye for the textures of sky, sea and land – as well as a keen feeling for how light creates moods and transforms scenes.’

And she added: ‘With a pristine, balanced sense of composition, she magnifies nature’s innate qualities while also leaving the space for nature to speak for itself.’

Pearson, a lecturer in photography at Weston College in Weston-super-Mare, describes herself as a ‘collaborator in the process of image-making.’